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I currently use the Logitech Wingman (nice for $25, my first joystick with more than 4 buootns and boy did I need it... ) and an outdated Gravis Blackhawk but that's for easy Winamp control, works just great for that, and it would work for gaming, has good response time for an ancient joystick... However, I think I am going to replace it with a homebrew control made for gameport, as it is very easy to fool Windows into thinking you have a joystick/gamepad on it... For example, my Gravis is only a collecton of plastic, metal supports and weights, springs, 4 tact switches, 3 potentiometers, and an empty PCB (only circuit traces) and the wire and D-sub connector.... Amazingly simple and easy to reverse-engineer...

I've gotta go with BoB on this one, it's gotta be tactile and mechanical... No soft little membrane switches that go "phht" when you push them...